Frog Pond Hat

Imagine
a
placid lake at sunset, lily pads floating on the surface. Specs of light flicker
across the water and fading sunlight catch a drop on a petal. That's what I
envision while knitting this hat.

I've worked it from the top down but the chart allows you to easily reverse
the directions to work bottom up or in the round from either direction. One
note, though, if you work it in the round, don't forget to remove the extra
selvage stitch on each end of the pattern.

Gauge:

20st x 24 rows = 4"

Supplies:

1 skein of Filatura Lanarota Rainbow in Soft Lilac

Less than 1 skein of Filatura Lanarota Rainbow in Natural

Less than 1 skein of Filatura Lanarota Rainbow in Soft Green

#7 needles (straight or circular)

6 Yellow Glass beads

6 White sequins

Thread

Tapestry needle

Sewing needle small enough to slip through hole in beads

Stitches used:

STst

1 x 1 rib

Inc (Knit in front and back of stitch)

Double Increase (Knit in Front, Back, and Front of designated stitch)

Garter Stitch

K2tog

Hat

Click
the image to the right to download the PDF chart.

Cast on 14 stitches and knit from the top down, increasing by working a double
increase in the stitches located where the 4 single columns of stitches are
shown in the chart.

Work to ribbing. With same needle work K1P1 ribbing finishing with bind off
of choice.

Flower

CO 3 stitch.
Working in Garter St, Inc in first stitch of every row until you have 10 stitches
total.
Snip yarn and repeat 4 more times, but don't cut yarn on last leaf.
Place all five petals on a single needle and knit across all stitches.
Work 3 more rows of Garter
*K2tog across entire row* x2
Cut yarn and draw through all remaining stitches.

With white yarn:

CO 5 stitches
Inc at beginning of every row to 9 stitches
Snip yarn and repeat 4 more times, but don't cut yarn on last petal.
Place all five petals on a single needle and knit across all stitches.
*K2tog across entire row* x2
Cut yarn and draw through all remaining stitches.

Finishing

Sew up back seam of hat

Sew in all ends with a tapestry needle.

Attach white flower to green leaves

With needle and thread, knot end of thread and draw through back of flower,
at center. Thread on one sequin and one yellow bead. Bring thread back through
sequin hole and back through flower.

Repeat process with the other five beads/sequins attaching them in a circle
around center bead. Please refer to images for reference.

Attach flower to hat VERY SECURLY. The flower is fairly heavy, so err on the
side of caution and really get that sucker well secured.

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